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What do you get when you add brass, primers, bullets, and powder? Yes, you get your very own hand rolled ammo. Forget standing in line to buy ammo, thats for suckers.
I have almost emptied a 8lb jug of powder and was wondering what I have spent to load a case of ammo. (Assumptions: 1. Your labor is free because you are not missing out on work to reload, if you have better things to do than reload, then go do those things. 2. Press has already been paid off but we could easily figure out what it would take to pay off the press.)
Ok, I figure that with my last couple of orders I went rock bottom for a regular person because I am sure a commercial loader would get further breaks on pricing.
Powder, 1 8lb jug of H322 $131.99. Add in $5/per for shipping and hazmat because the total was spread out, ie, a group buy.
Primers, 1 case of primers $125. Add in $3/case for shipping and hazmat because I bought a lot of primers.
Bullets, 1000 55gr FMJ's $66. To get this price you would have to do a group buy. Add in $4/box for shipping.
Brass, if anyone has seen a guy at the range with an orange 5 gal Home Depot bucket on his hands and knees, thats me.
Per round, $.055 powder, $.0256 primer, and $.07 bullet is $.15 or $150 a case. The only way to go cheaper is to buy surplus powder at $94 a jug. That would bring your powder cost to $.0377 a round saving you $18 per case. But the performance of surplus may not be worth and savings.
Outdoor marksman has reloads for $303/case shipped. If you reloaded your own thats a $153/case savings and I just loaded 2 cases worth.
Paying off your Dillon with reloading .223. A full tilt XL650 is going to be somewhere north of $1000. So, lets take $1075/$153 = 7. You would have to reload 7 cases of .223 to pay for the Dillon. So yes it wouldnt be until the 8th case that you are actually saving $153/case. Its even bigger savings if you figure from factory new. A case of PMC is $430 shipped making for a savings of $280. Then $1075/$280 = 3.8 cases. The XL650 pays for itself after reloading just 3.8 cases if compared to factory ammo.
But if you look at the big picture it could be 5-10 cases of .308, .223, 9mm, .45, .40 or any other combo. Or just figure how much you shoot, 7000 rounds/500 round per month is 14 months to start reaching a pay back point. But seriously dont kind yourself into reloading for the savings do it to make better ammo or to shoot more often. With factory ammo I use to shot 100rds every couple of months but now that I reload I shoot a couple hundred rounds every month.
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I have almost emptied a 8lb jug of powder and was wondering what I have spent to load a case of ammo. (Assumptions: 1. Your labor is free because you are not missing out on work to reload, if you have better things to do than reload, then go do those things. 2. Press has already been paid off but we could easily figure out what it would take to pay off the press.)
Ok, I figure that with my last couple of orders I went rock bottom for a regular person because I am sure a commercial loader would get further breaks on pricing.
Powder, 1 8lb jug of H322 $131.99. Add in $5/per for shipping and hazmat because the total was spread out, ie, a group buy.
Primers, 1 case of primers $125. Add in $3/case for shipping and hazmat because I bought a lot of primers.
Bullets, 1000 55gr FMJ's $66. To get this price you would have to do a group buy. Add in $4/box for shipping.
Brass, if anyone has seen a guy at the range with an orange 5 gal Home Depot bucket on his hands and knees, thats me.
Per round, $.055 powder, $.0256 primer, and $.07 bullet is $.15 or $150 a case. The only way to go cheaper is to buy surplus powder at $94 a jug. That would bring your powder cost to $.0377 a round saving you $18 per case. But the performance of surplus may not be worth and savings.
Outdoor marksman has reloads for $303/case shipped. If you reloaded your own thats a $153/case savings and I just loaded 2 cases worth.
Paying off your Dillon with reloading .223. A full tilt XL650 is going to be somewhere north of $1000. So, lets take $1075/$153 = 7. You would have to reload 7 cases of .223 to pay for the Dillon. So yes it wouldnt be until the 8th case that you are actually saving $153/case. Its even bigger savings if you figure from factory new. A case of PMC is $430 shipped making for a savings of $280. Then $1075/$280 = 3.8 cases. The XL650 pays for itself after reloading just 3.8 cases if compared to factory ammo.
But if you look at the big picture it could be 5-10 cases of .308, .223, 9mm, .45, .40 or any other combo. Or just figure how much you shoot, 7000 rounds/500 round per month is 14 months to start reaching a pay back point. But seriously dont kind yourself into reloading for the savings do it to make better ammo or to shoot more often. With factory ammo I use to shot 100rds every couple of months but now that I reload I shoot a couple hundred rounds every month.
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